Neighborhoods All of Philadelphia

Repurposing Old Infrastructure: Water History Video 5

Ghosts of Water in Fairmount Park, Part II, with Adam Levine

High Water: Flooding in Philadelphia

William Penn balks at drinking the "mixed drink" offered him: Schuylkill water, mixed with pollution from the upstream sources named. Editorial cartoon by Fred Morgan, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 6, 1899. One of a series of cartoons drawn by Morgan protesting the state of the city's drinking water and trying to encourage the passage of legislation authorizing the construction of a water filtration system.

Half a Century of Clean Water